Blackbird Heavy Industries lost its ability to launch intercontinental missiles.

Not only five missile silos were destroyed, but also ICBMs around the perimeter of the silos, a lot of them were destroyed.

It won't be easy for them to rebuild this capability in the short term, and for at least a few months, they won't have to worry about it anymore. Whether it is to rebuild missile silos or replenish the number of missiles, it is not a task that can be completed overnight.

And before the Space Marines destroyed those missile silos, according to statistics, at least 500 ICBMs had been launched all over the alliance. Among them, most of the missiles are still aimed at Fuxing City, Weixing City, and the front-line army; In addition, there were 80 missiles in total, which fell on the cities of Chatan, Gaota, and Beigong (renamed from the Far North Industrial City).

Elsewhere there were no missiles.

It is estimated that the more easterly areas, such as the cities of Scallo and the city of Xiongya, are beyond the range of the Blackbird's cruise missiles. For example, in other places in the Beiqinggu area, the land is vast and sparsely populated, and people will not use missiles to blow up farmland; Although some other areas in the Central Province, the Gaota Province, and the Central and Northern Provinces also have some industrial value and have no air defense force at all, after all, the industrial distribution is very scattered, and the intelligence is unknown, so it is not cost-effective to bomb it, so it has not been hit.

Weixing City and Fuxing City were attacked with the highest frequency, but most of the missiles that hit here were intercepted, especially Weixing City, which was not eaten once after that. That's because Gu Hang personally went and helped intercept the missiles that were not blocked by the 'Reflector' air defense system.

However, when he went to Weixing City, Fuxing City was unlucky, and after several waves of blows, a small number of missiles still fell, blowing up neighborhoods, residential areas and factories.

But all in all, the losses are relatively manageable. The air defense sirens sounded early in the sky over the two cities, and those who should be evacuated should be evacuated, and those who should go home and stay will go home and stay. Even if a residential area suffered war damage and destroyed two buildings, the number of casualties was kept to less than 50.

The worst situation is Chatan, Takata, and Hokko.

Although there are some air defense systems left over from the Far North Industrial Group in the past, they are certainly not comparable to the 'reflectors' in terms of level, and the interception efficiency is not very good.

As for Chatania and the Tower, there was no air defense system at all, and they were simply bombed.

According to later statistics, these three cities were bombarded by dozens of missiles, and there were more than 5,000 casualties in total!

This was after the first wave of missiles, and all the cities that raised the alarm evacuated the crowd, stopped work and production, hid in bomb shelters if they could, and went home shivering if they couldn't.

But even so, the Coalition suffered heavy casualties.

At present, the preliminary and rough statistics are carried out, from population to construction to industry to goods...... That's a lot of millions in tax dollars lost.

Gu Hang was very distressed.

The most distressing thing is the loss of population. Of the 5,000 casualties, even if more than 3,000 were only injured, at least more than half of them were able to finally return to productive labor capacity after a period of medical assistance, but this is still a huge loss.

But he still had to rejoice that the work of the Space Marines was outstanding. In the shortest possible time, they eliminated the threat of the Blackbird's ICBMs to the Alliance.

The bombardment of 500 missiles brought a million tax dollars in losses, and the ammunition reserves of the Blackbird were of course far more than that. If you really let this number come out tenfold, the loss of tens of millions will definitely not be able to stop.

Chatan, the capital of the province of Kita-Aoya, is the Union's most important food processing hub and food transportation hub. The city of High Tower is an important resource gathering and primary processing base for the Alliance, as well as an energy base. These two places alone were devastated, and the loss was more than 10 million, not to mention that after inheriting the legacy of the Far North Industry, Beigong City can almost be regarded as the second largest industrial center in the alliance.

It can be said that the Space Marines attacked this time and saved at least 20 million tax coins for the alliance and saved countless lives.

This incident also gave Gu Hang a wake-up call and taught the alliance a profound lesson.

Under his direction, Wei Xingcheng has begun to focus on expanding the production line of the 'Reflector'.

Four models, vehicle type, air defense type, naval gun type, orbital type...... All of them have to be put on the production schedule.

The specifications of these four models are arranged from small to large. The vehicle type was originally in mass production, and it could be used on the Lion Tank and the Wind Falcon; The anti-aircraft version was previously produced on a small scale, and now it is necessary to increase productivity; The naval gun version is also about to be produced, and it will be used on the subsequent Alliance's 'Traveler' spacecraft, although this thing is not even the specifications of a patrol ship, but at least it can fit a ship's gun-type reflector.

As for the orbital type, it can be used for ground anti-orbital warfare, and can directly shoot laser cannons from the ground into space, so that the alliance can fight back when it encounters orbital strikes in the future, and it can also be built on the starport, so that the starport can become an armed star fort.

Even, Tadius has already received the task of Gu Hang, and to start preparing to cover the entire alliance orbital air defense system, the main equipment he relies on is the 'reflector'.

And at the moment, for the Blackbirds, the alliance is not just beaten and does not fight back, they have also made a reciprocal counterattack.

The Bladed Tiger was in orbit and bombarded Blackbird City for a whole day until it ran out of ammunition.

The Blackbirds are not like the missile silos that the Alliance has to deal with them, they have no countermeasures against orbital bombardment. They don't have the anti-orbital firepower to bombard the Bladed Tiger, nor do they have the ability to project an elite army team onto a starship.

Then you can only be bombed.

It's a pity that this is the Bladed Tiger, not the Quintet, otherwise, what Blackbird City lost is definitely not the outer city, the entire core city will be blown up, and it is not easy to use it with an energy shield.

However, it doesn't matter if you can't bomb it for a while, you can replenish the ammunition and continue to bomb it in a few days.

Some large cannonballs, such as the 'Wrath of the Loyal Heir' on the previous quintet, or even the 'Hot Hammer', could not be made by the Alliance. But the 'reflectors' and 'defenders', there is nothing wrong with that.

Especially the 'Reflector', the 'Reflector' on the Bladed Tiger is a naval gun type, but the technical specifications are universal, and the alliance is fully capable of providing high-quality energy batteries to the Bladed Tiger, so that they can continue to bomb without hand.

What if the core area is saved? There is a Bladed Tiger flying in orbit, and there is a large-scale transportation of materials, so it will be blown up; If a large-scale build-up of front-line troops is detected, then it will be blown up, and the orbital advantage will be on me, then this battle will be many times easier.

In fact, the war on the front line has officially begun.

The army of the Alliance, in the desert, has already met the enemy vanguard.

Until now, though, the scale of the battle was not large.

The Alliance's 250,000 troops had already established a long line of defense in the desert from south to north.

The entire Western Desert region is connected to the sea in the west of Beiqing Valley in the south and the Beihai in the north, and the span is very large. Only 250,000 people is not enough to cover such a large defensive line. If that were to happen, the sheer spans of the line would spread the force out of the way out, and the poor roads would have caused catastrophic hardship for the Alliance's logistical supply lines.

On this premise, Major General Yan Fangxu, as the supreme commander of the front, still adopts the strategy of 'all-round marking and focusing on defense'.

The so-called 'all-out guard' refers to the arrangement of a large number of small scattered units, patrolling by car, and setting up numerous sentinel posts. This coverage area is not bad, plus the Air Force brothers, driving the Wind Falcon in the all-weather patrol reconnaissance. It is hoped that in this way, the enemy will be prevented from crossing the line of defense.

The so-called 'key defense' refers to the focus of troops on the desert avenue, in batches, at different levels, with multiple divisions as one part, to build a three-dimensional multi-layered defense line, and to control the surface with points.

In this way, Yan Fangxu controlled the 3,000-kilometer defense line from north to south with 26 divisions and brigades, totaling 250,000 people. The 'key points' are on this main artery of the desert avenue and on several oases in the north-south direction; as for the end of the 3,000-kilometer longitudinal north-south length, as well as the vast desert area, it can only be seen by the air force and patrol squads.

Of course, the control of this cultivation is very weak, but Yan Fangxu has no other way.

Compared to the area he wants to control, he still has too few troops on hand.

What is more important is that, according to the information sent back by the personnel who collected intelligence behind the enemy's rear, and the cross-border reconnaissance of the air force, Yan Fangxu found that the enemy did not seem to have adopted the tactics of gathering heavy troops and making breakthroughs at key points. The enemy forces were scattered into many small units, and it seemed that they were trying to penetrate and penetrate the 3,000-kilometer longitudinal defensive line.

Regardless of whether the mechanical legion of these blackbirds wants to directly insert into the hinterland of the alliance when they are interspersed, or in the environment of the Western Desert, they will not be able to succeed in encirclement and annihilation tactics.

For this reason, Yan Fangxu had to adopt this strategy to deal with it, and the two sides gradually began to fall into the quagmire of a small war.

From a single point of view, the scale of the battle is not large, and the battle is mainly fought on the scale of the squad and platoon level, and the highest level is not to rise to the company level. However, the frequency of fighting is very high, and when serious battles are fought, the number of losses in personnel and equipment is not small.

And Yan Fangxu can't stand this situation anymore.

He's planning a big operation.

……

Mikel Nelson, the political commissar of the Central Army and with the rank of brigadier general, asked Yan Fangxu worriedly: "Isn't this a little too radical?" Did the Governor give us a clear directive that we should try to be as defensive as possible without the flames of war reaching the Alliance? As a result, you are now going to order our army to launch a full-scale attack to the west, and also to have the Wind Extinguishing Brigade form an armored group and break through three hundred kilometers in two days? ”

When Nelson questioned, his eyes never took off the combat sand table placed in front of him and Yan Fangxu.

This phantom sand table is also a high-end product, and it is a thing imported by the Governor through the Gu family's trading house. After the parameters are entered, multiple servo skulls are calculated together, and through special imaging technology, the three-dimensional image combat map of different scale sizes can be displayed, and the zoom in and out can be supported.

On the phantom sand table, it almost encompasses the entire Western Desert region and the western part of the northern border, from the bay in the south to the cliff strait in the north. The information of the alliance's army is also reflected here, as a model of a villain, a car, and a tank, and the number and flag of the unit are also inserted on it.

At the same time, on the opposite side of the corps, there were one red banner after another, representing the enemy's army.

Of course, this information is not updated in real time, but relies on the staff team to summarize and input the data transmitted from various fronts in accordance with specific technical rules. Intelligence on the enemy is collected by relying on various means of reconnaissance. Since they were not true and did not know what the specific number of the enemy was, they could only make up a code name by themselves, which marked the approximate strength and composition of the enemy.

At present, on the phantom sandbox of this chapter, there are already dense offensive arrows, which have been drawn.

These arrows represent Yan Fangxu's plan.

Almost all units at the division and brigade level have the requirement to attack forward. Among them, the most exaggerated is that the 1st Brigade, the 3rd Brigade, the 46th and 47th Brigades, on the West Desert Avenue, assembled into an armored cluster, along the avenue to the west for 300 kilometers, through countless red flags in the middle, and finally arrived at an oasis called 'tail scorpion'.

There, it is said to be a key logistical supply hub for the Blackbird Army.

Blackbird's transhumans, mechanical dogs, drones, unmanned combat vehicles, unmanned self-propelled artillery...... You don't need to eat, but you still need to resupply your ammunition. Moreover, their demand for fuel, electricity and other energy logistical supplies is much higher than that of human armies.

Destroying the enemy's reserves in this area can indeed greatly reduce the difficulty of the battle, which can be regarded as a brilliant result.

But......

The difficulty is also too high.

Nelson was hesitant.

But Yan Fangxu has his own set of views on this.

"You're right, the Doge's order is indeed to defend. But, Nielsen, we have to see the essence through the phenomenon. What is the purpose of the Governor asking us to be on the defensive? It is hoped that before the arrival of the Astral Army, we must control the losses in our independent battle with the Blackbird, and turn back and let those Astral Armies go up to solve the problem, not that we can just keep it forever. ”

"But the current situation clearly doesn't support us to do that."

"Those iron-skinned monsters didn't dare to fight us in groups, and even let go of their control over the desert avenue, and instead infiltrated and interspersed in small groups. In order to stop them, our warriors also divided into small units and fought with them in the desert after bloody battles. ”

"This is not our advantage at all, in half a month, we have lost more than 4,000 people, and we can't continue to bleed like this."

"We have to make a big punch for us to hold on."

(End of chapter)